Feed table for balers



Nov. 21, 1939. B. c. LEONARD FEED TABLE FOR BALERS Filed MarphB, 1958 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 B. QLeonarJ Nov. 21', 1939.

ZSheets-Sheet 2 Patented Nov. 21 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE FEED TABLE FOR BALERS Benjamin 0. Leonard, Monroe, Mich.

Application March 3,

5 Claims.

thereof to the baler, and at the same time be handled in a clean manner.

It is further aimed to provide a structure which is portable and which has novel extensible and collapsible parts as will be hereinafter described with relation to accompanying drawings illustrating an operative embodiment.

In said drawings:

. Figure 1 is a View in plan showing my improvements in the path of feeding material to a baler;

Figure 2 is a substantially longitudinal sectional view taken on the line 2--2 of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a section taken on the line 3-3 of Figure 1, and

Figure 4 is a view of one end of the baler with the parts in folded position.

Referring specifically to the drawings, my improvements utilize a main table or platform l constituting part of a baler conventionally shown at II. Rising rigidly from the platform I0 on opposite sides, are pairs of posts I2 and I3. A brace or bracket I2a connects the post I2 at the top and a similar brace or bracket I3a connects the post I3 at the top. Walls M are fastened at I5 to the posts I2 and walls I6 are fastened at I! to the posts I3. It will be noted that the walls I4 and I6 are spaced apart so as to accommodate the plunger mechanism P in its baling movement longitudinally of the baler in the space between such walls, and the feed or supply of the hay, straw or other material. Vertical brackets I8 are fastened to platform I6.

At each end of the baler platform or table II] an auxiliary table or platform I9 is pivotally connected as by means of hinges so as to be capable of assuming a horizontal position as shown in Figures 1 and 2 or a vertical position as shown in Figure 4. Each auxiliary table I9 at the outer surface, is provided with a plurality of loop shaped brackets 2| in which a pair of struts 22 are detachably positioned, being held against displacement in the vertical position of the tables as through the engagement of a hook 23 thereon with one of the brackets 2|. When the auxiliary tables I9 are horizontal, the struts 22 extend partly through adjacent brackets 2|, as shown in Figure 2, and at their opposite ends bear in angle portions 24 of the brackets I8.

To aid in confining the material fed over the tables I9, wings 25 are provided at each side of each table I9, preferably being detachable. To

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this end, the wings 25 have hooks 26 detachably engageable in eyelets 21 on the Walls I4 and I6.

Said walls or tables I9 have chains 28 attached at opposite ends thereto, which are trained over guide pulleys 29, suitably mounted at the tops of the posts l2 and I3. Said chains 28 are of such length as to support the auxiliary tables I9 in horizontal position 22 and they are operable to raise such auxiliary tables I9 to vertical position in which they may be held by fasteners 30,

pivoted on the posts I2 and I3, and engageable with eyelets 3| on the auxiliary tables I9. Struts 22 are used to prevent one cable I9 moving below the horizontal when the other cable is raised and chains 28 are slack.

Extensions 32 are provided for the auxiliary tables l9, preferably being detachable, so that they may be removed when space is restricted as Within certain barns. These extensions 32 preferably have hooks 33 detachably engaging eyelets 34 carried by the auxiliary tables I9. Chains 35 are carried by the wings 25 and are detachably engageable with hooks 36 on the extensions 32, to support them in horizontal position. If desired, when space is restricted, rather than removing the extensions 32 they may hang in a dependent position as suggested in dotted lines in Figure 2. When the extensions 32 are not being used, adjacent links of the chains 35 may be engaged with the adjacent hooks 31 on the tables l9.

In the use of the device, the parts are in the position as shown at the left of Figure 2, with the extensions 32 horizontal, when space permits. In use, the hay, straw or other material is pitched onto the extension 32, table I9 and table I6 of the baling means, moving into the path of the plunger or compressing means of the baler which travels over platform I0 through the openings left between walls I4 and I6, the hay, straw or other material being urged or moved along by a pitchfork or the'like when necessary.

When the device is not being used, its parts are preferably retracted as shown at the right in Figure 2, with the wings 25 and extensions 32 preferably detached.

Various changes may be resorted to provided they fall within the spirit and scope of the invention.

I claim as my invention:

1. Apparatus of the class described having baling means provided with a table, spaced walls v at opposite sides to the first mentioned table, and means to secure the auxiliary tables in an operative position and in a folded position.

2. Apparatus of the class described having baling means provided with a table, auxiliary tables pivoted at opposite sides to the first mentioned table, spaced walls including structural members rising from the first mentioned table, each wall having an opening therethrough leading to the baling table, chains guided by said members and secured at opposite ends to the auxiliary tables to enable movement to operative position, strut means supporting the tables in operative position from the baling means, said chains being operable to raise the auxiliary tables to inoperative position.

3. Apparatus of the class described having baling means provided with a table, auxiliary tables pivoted at opposite sides to the first mentioned table, spaced walls including structural members rising from the first mentioned table, each wall having an opening therethrough leading to the baling table, chains guided by said members and secured at opposite ends to the auxiliary tables to enable movement to operative position, said chains being operable to raise the auxiliary tables to inoperative position, depending means on the first mentioned table at opposite sides, and strut means disposable between the depending means and the auxiliary tables to support the latter in operative position.

4. Apparatus of the class described having baling means provided with a table, auxiliary tables pivoted at opposite sides to the first mentioned table, spaced walls including structural members rising from the first mentioned table, each Wall having an opening therethrough leading to the table, chains guided by said members and secured at opposite ends to the auxiliary tables to enable movement to operative position, said chains being operable to raise the auxiliary tables to inoperative position, depending means on the first mentioned table at opposite sides, strut means disposable between the depending means and the auxiliary tables to support the latter in operative position, and wings detachably connected to the structural members and disposable at the sides of the auxiliary tables.

5. Apparatus of the class described having baling means provided with a table, auxiliary tables pivoted at opposite sides to the first mentioned table, spaced walls including structural members rising from the first mentioned table, each wall having an opening therethrough leading to the baling table, chains guided by said members and secured at opposite ends to the auxiliary tables to enable movement to operative position, said chains being'operable to raise the auxiliary tables to inoperative position, depending means on the first mentioned table at opposite sides, strut means disposable between the depending means and the auxiliary tables to support the latter in operative position, wings detachably connected to the structural members and disposable at the sides of the auxiliary tables, extensions for the auxiliary tables pivoted thereto, and chains car- 

